Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-09
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES.

WASHINGTON, March 7.-Among the Presi-
Dental postmasters appointed to-day was
John MeGonigle, of San Buenaventura
California, vice Mrs. Jennie Goodwin, re-
signed. Although pressure has been brought
to bear upon the President to induce him
to approve the River and Harbor bill, and
strong arguments have been made, and
cases cited to establish the authority for
the Executive to sign any bill within ten
days after adjournment of Congress, it is
authoritatively stated at the White House
that the President will not approve the
bill.
In dispatch to the Department of State
Ministe. DENLY has high compliment to
present the military administration
in Formosa, who the Minister says, is
doing much to establish order and to
develop the resources of the island. In
the last year he has been able to bring into
subjection over 400 villages, with the
result that 10000 people have embraced
civilization, and over 10000 acres of
abandoned land have been reclaimed. The
previous condition of affairs is exemplifed
by the statement OF Vice Consul Cowles,
that q thousand murders a year are
charged against the Aborigines. Consul
Cowles, OF America, speaking Of the ener-
getic administration of the Governor
General, says he has instituted many new
taxes, and has created govern
ment monopoly of the camphor industry.
This, said the Consul is regarded by for
eigners as the first step of the entering
wedge, a feeling OF the way by the native
authorities of Formosa to similar and
more important Government monopolies
in other and more important articles of
industry and trade that might cause irrep-
arabic injury to the foreign commercial
interests connected with the trade of For
mosa, such, for instance, as the tea and
sugar trade, and as nearly all tea produced
in Formosa finds q market in the United
States as we'll as some OF the sugar pro-
duct, the creation of Government monopo-
lies on that island may justly be revived
With more than ordinary interest, as their
present and probable future ef-
feet upon American interests.
The comptroller of the currency said this
afternoon that he has not been able as yet
to take acton in regard to the designation
of additional reserve cities, under the recent
act OF Congress authorizing such designa.
ton when requested by three-fourths of the
national banks in the city where such priv.
ileges are desired. He will do nothing, he
says, until he has received certified copy
OF the bill from the Department of State.
He expects to receive this in few days and
speedy execution OF the law.
Trotter, the new Recorder OF Deeds for
the District of Columbia, called at the
White House to-day. in company with Ex-
Recorder Matthews and was formally pre-
sented to the President. 1t was their first
meeting.
It is expected that Judge Mc"ue, Solic-
itor OF the Treasury, will either be ap
pointed as additional Circuit Judge for
New York District for the trial of customs
cases or that he will be appointed Assist
ant Secretary of the Treasury in the event
of Fairchild's appointment as Secretary of
the Treasury.
The Supreme Court reassembled to-day
after the February recess. All the JUS
tices were in their reats except Justice
Woods, who is still in California.
The decisions were rendered in twenty
eight cases, OF which the following are of
the most general Importance.
No. 90. Executors of Elias Speidel, de-
ceased, against the trustees of Harmony
Society, OF Beaver County. Said appeal is
from the United States Circuit Court for
the Western District OF Pennsylvania.
This was suit brought by former men,
Der of the Harmony community to recover
what he claimed was his individual eharein
the community property. The appellant
maintains his suit against the trustees on
the ground that the trust is not charity
in a legal sense; that the members of the
society are equitable tenants in common OF
the property held in trust, and that the
trust is unlawful, because founded on fraud
and against public policy, and should,
therefore, be dissolved. This tho court,
without considering the questions thus
raised, a. to the nature Of tho community